smokel

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by smokel 2y ago
Also, the envisioned displays are transparent, as in science fiction movies. Edit: partially transparent, obviously.
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by smokel 2y ago
And even more importantly, why is Tux a penguin?
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by smokel 2y ago
The idea is to install only a few of these, possibly only in designated railway carriages. It would make for a great conversation starter, which might be an improvement over people staring at their own screens.
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by smokel 2y ago
The (highly recommended) Belgian television series "In de gloria" [1] had a teleshopping sketch in which one could order VHS tapes of their favorite tracks. The target audience was pensioners who had traveled the same boring trac
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by smokel 2y ago
My hart jumped when I initially thought that they had implemented an idea that I had once. Turns out MetaWindow is not an augmented reality display in the train's window, where one can read information on the scenery that one passes
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by smokel 2y ago
Hopefully, we will soon enter the stage where nobody believes anything they see anymore. Then, you no longer have to be afraid of being misinterpreted, because nobody is listening anymore anyway. Great time to be alive!
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by smokel 2y ago
This Dutch book [1] by Gummbah has the text "Kooptip" imprinted on the cover, which would roughly translate to "Buying recommendation". It worked for me! [1] https://www.amazon.com/Het-geheim-verdwenen-m
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by smokel 2y ago
The demoscene was an interesting social phenomenon where "street credit" from the graffiti scene was applied to math dorks. This created a competitive atmosphere that made you stay up late, reading CGPP, PC Intern, and Ferraro.
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by smokel 2y ago
A key difference between database mapping and interactive AI tools is the position of the user. I would not be enthusiastic about a system where I receive database query results for review, before delivering them to an end user somewhere on
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by smokel 2y ago
Some basic detective work led me to the source code for the URL generation [1]. We can all stop reverse engineering the algorithm now: it appears that it uses a random generator to come up with the I's and l's. [1] https:/&#
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by smokel 2y ago
It makes a lot more sense to consider Hollywood and video games as the proper successors to classical art, and to see contemporary art as only a small strand in the evolution of art. Somehow someone managed to convince the world that Hollyw
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by smokel 2y ago
I'm not sure if this trend will continue for as long as you fear. Individual expression had had some boosts during the Renaissance, during Romanticism (perhaps due to atheism, as a first response to globalism, and due to scientific dis
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by smokel 2y ago
Map matching to a road network might be helpful here. For example, a Hidden Markov Model gives good results. See for instance this paper: "Hidden Markov map matching through noise and sparseness" (2009) https://www.mi
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by smokel 2y ago
The things that we are typically interested in have very clear patterns. In a way, if we find that there are no patterns, we don't even try to do any forecasting. "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Scie
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by smokel 2y ago
> You always want to work in a product that maintains a decent one. That'd be lovely indeed. I have never seen one that I felt comfortable with, though. And I've seen a few. When LLMs rose in popularity, I had hopes of havi
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by smokel 2y ago
In functional analysis, it is somewhat of a sport to attach indices to all four corners of a symbol. I remember overhearing a discussion between two big players in the field, and they obviously did not share the same starting point for rea
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by smokel 2y ago
For those not in the know, "MAB" is short for Multi-Armed Bandit [1], which is a decision-making framework that is often discussed in the broader context of reinforcement learning. In my limited understanding, MAB problems are sim
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by smokel 2y ago
I must admit that my post was not very clear (reflecting the current state of my thoughts about this matter), but what I meant to say is exactly the opposite of your suggestion. Some people believe that AI will take our jobs, but my point i
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by smokel 2y ago
> Students can spend more time on optimization, ethical issues, and the user-friendliness of a system rather than focusing on the syntax of the code And when they land a job in the industry, where exactly are the optimization and ethic
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by smokel 3y ago
I fail to see what is so wrong with it. It works on mobile, and it has some actual information. I suppose at least 95% of the internet is worse off. Are you sure it is not a taste issue?
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by smokel 3y ago
I find this a strange perspective. There are many tech ideas which have barely even started. Quantum computing, space travel, DNA modification, climate control, to name a few. These will all affect a lot of humans in the future, unless
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by smokel 3y ago
There is a lot of discussion going on about this. Most of it is not very constructive, but "power structure" research is a scientific thing that might interest you.
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by smokel 3y ago
I remember trying to rename LILO (from "Loading Linux" fame) to PIPO [1] by simply editing the bytes with a hex editor. Turned out that didn't work, because there was an additional sanity check that halted the boot process if
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by smokel 3y ago
It seems likely that our brains are doing something similar. I remember being able to add a lot of detail to the monsters that I could barely make out amidst the clothes piled up on my bedroom floor.
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by smokel 3y ago
When this stuff happens to me, I try to imagine that people accidentally tapped the down arrow, because it is so close to the up arrow. Enjoy my upvote!
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by smokel 3y ago
You can use "favorite" for this, which is less spammy.
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by smokel 3y ago
They would probably also use regular expressions and incomprehensible $ and \ escape codes to retain some of the fun.
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by smokel 3y ago
Some people have memories in which they see themselves from a third person view. Not to say that your memories are false, but for scientific purposes, anecdotal evidence is probably even less trustworthy than experimentation in mice. I onc
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by smokel 3y ago
> The advice I would give, is: Do what you are passionate about, what really interests you. I don't mean to offend, and I'm happy for you that you've been so successful, but the advice does not make sense for people whos
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by smokel 3y ago
You mean like Goldene [1]? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40071956

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